- Edward Barbary: Why could you not deal with Jaggers?
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: I prefer to be direct.
- Edward Barbary: I'm a gentleman. I prefer discretion.
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: That is why I lowered the blinds. Well, a short-term loan so you can release your stock from overseas.
- Edward Barbary: One thousand pounds' worth of silk. So what I request is insignificant.
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: No, no. It's still significant.
- [Barbary slams the desk in fury]
- Edward Barbary: Damn you, sir! Seventy pounds is all I require! You should be grateful I would deign to bring my business to your door!
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: Oh, I consider myself much advanced, simply by being in your presence.
- [Inspector Bucket lies face down as Mr Venus manipulates his bad back]
- Inspector Bucket: Animals don't lie, I suppose?
- Mr. Venus: Oh, they do. Consider the jaguar: how it crouches in the tree like a blameless shadow among the branches. But he is death and he is remorseless. Oh, they lie to avoid detection; pretend they are powerful when they are weak as an unshelled chick.
- Inspector Bucket: You know what doesn't lie? Money. And I have the books. I have 'em and I will follow the money to Marley's killer. He is hiding in those pages, but I am the trap, the poison, the gun and the gaff. I am Bucket of the Detective and I will have my man!
- Mr. Venus: Breathe out!
- [Mr Venus swiftly administers his final treatment and Bucket cries in pain]
- [first lines]
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: [passing in the street] Arrested any more innocents lately, Mr. Bucket?
- Inspector Bucket: I shall see justice done, Mr. Scrooge, if I have to arrest every last man in London.
- Ebeneezer Scrooge: Humbug...